Immunological Control of Viral Infections in Bats and the Emergence of Viruses Highly Pathogenic to Humans
Bats are reservoir hosts of many important viruses that cause substantial disease in humans, including coronaviruses, filoviruses, lyssaviruses, and henipaviruses. Other than the lyssaviruses, they do not appear to cause disease in the reservoir bats, thus an explanation for the dichotomous outcomes...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01098/full |